diff --git a/requirements/requirements-browser.in b/requirements/requirements-browser.in
index cf7811e0d..de1cabe58 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements-browser.in
+++ b/requirements/requirements-browser.in
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 -c ../requirements.txt
 
 streamlit
-watchdog
+watchdog<5 # docker build fails: streamlit 1.38.0 depends on watchdog<5 
diff --git a/requirements/requirements-browser.txt b/requirements/requirements-browser.txt
index 83bb7d19f..9b843f5c8 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements-browser.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements-browser.txt
@@ -141,5 +141,5 @@ urllib3==2.2.2
     # via
     #   -c requirements/../requirements.txt
     #   requests
-watchdog==5.0.0
+watchdog==4.0.2
     # via -r requirements/requirements-browser.in